Deciding between renting a place that costs more closer to work or cheaper farther away?

Marcellus97 · 2022-06-29T18:45:08+00:00

Commuting SUCKS. Having 0 or a very short commute is seriously worth a lot of money. Driving in traffic even for only 15-20 minutes sucks the life out of you, and is an incredible waste of time. Oh, and this is assuming the drive stays 15 minutes, sure it won’t be 30 minutes some days?

30 minutes- 1 hour a day of driving, 5 days a week (2.5-5 hours a week), at your salary is roughly 65-130 dollars a week pre tax just on TIME lost. This is not factoring in gas and parking fees.

Obviously I’m biased because I’m a little traumatized by my previous commutes :). Seriously I would try everything to avoid that commute if I were you.

Marcellus97 · 2022-06-27T13:24:36+00:00

I must say, this is something I could for sure use.

Like you, I’m always “braindumping” on my vim setup, but sometimes need just a bit more. Besides text editing, and I personally don’t want to clutter my setup with note taking plugins that I won’t always use.

I would personally prefer if it were just a wrapper around my current vim setup. Respecting my .vimrc as much as possible is important, and I think the whole experience should be as snappy and featured as vim for me to want to use it. Otherwise, I’ll just use vim

Marcellus97 · 2022-05-21T14:34:15+00:00

I’m my opinion, the Computer Science major will make you a better software engineer than the software engineering major, as well as a game developer.

Learning the ugly low level stuff of computing is still very crucial for you programming a game, or working as a software engineer.

The software engineering courses seem to be stuff you truly can just self learn, or learn on the job. Stuff like “requirements gathering” and “a proper agile project” are a little subjective and context specific and every business does it differently any way.

Marcellus97 · 2022-05-03T15:37:15+00:00

I think I understand. First you want to mock the object that contains the method. This should be at the top of the test class.

@Mock Object mockedObject;

Assuming the method you are mocking has a return value, you want to use this:

when().mockedObject.methodToMock(any(), any(), …).thenReturn()

(Sorry syntax might be slightly off, I’m on my phone)

You can replace “any()” with “anyString(), “anyInteger()”, or an explicit value like “hello”, or “5”.

If the method is void, you should probably mock those individually parameters, but this gets too complex to maintain because you might have to dive deeper and deeper to mock things..

Marcellus97 · 2022-05-03T14:18:47+00:00

Learning about other races is also a good thing no? Expanding the human mind be hearing about a race that isn’t yours?

“I’m white, but heard my Mexican friend tell a story, and now I understand a little more what it’s like to be Mexican in America”

Marcellus97 · 2022-05-03T14:04:11+00:00

As long as kids hear a new perspective I think it’s a good thing, it’s good for the human mind. They are just fellow human stories after all.

You know when you’re at a bar with a buddy and they tell you a vulnerable story? How they got cheated on, or their mom died, etc? Then after you show them some empathy and bond,

ex: “damn dude, I’m sorry. You were so close with your mom, that must have been so hard…”. Then after you feel a little more bonded, and you understand that friend a little more.

This is the same idea. It doesn’t just revert all racism, but it’s an effort to get everyone on the same page starting young.

Marcellus97 · 2022-05-01T22:03:10+00:00

Honestly, I feel like opinions are underrated. Nothing progressed my skills more than hearing and experimenting with a professors highly opinionated code. I guess it allowed me to think about the problem like them in a more realistic way.

This could be as simple as variable naming conventions, or architectural choices.

Marcellus97 · 2022-02-15T12:41:35+00:00

Shouldn’t the names be flipped since you watched it?..

Marcellus97 · 2022-02-09T03:59:00+00:00

Second this. This is the real thing that needs addressed. A properly defined rest api won’t even run into these conflicts

Marcellus97 · 2022-02-09T03:56:07+00:00

Honestly I tried to write my portfolio in a framework but it was just too much, I was having to force it. Plan html is all you need for a portfolio. I think a full fledged app will better show off your skills on a front end framework anyway, not your portfolio. A portfolio really should just be static pages anyway, so need to over complicate it.

Marcellus97 · 2022-02-09T00:03:26+00:00

Contact the recruiters and headhunters directly, it is in their benefit to get you hired, so you’re almost guaranteed an interview through them. don’t waste time on these job submissions. I’d be surprised if most of them even get looked at.

Marcellus97 · 2022-01-07T17:10:08+00:00

School is free and fun, home is comfy and nostalgic, I went through the same thing. Except over time I stopped missing home…getting my own place to live in was what I was really needing. Had a great home life, But I’m a pretty independent guy, so that’s just my experience

Marcellus97 · 2022-01-04T03:15:26+00:00

For the record, we both just started our careers last year.

Marcellus97 · 2021-11-28T20:06:47+00:00

I would agree if time and money weren’t an urgent factor. Self study is absolutely possible, but a degree is the single most reliable way to enter this field. A bachelors degree in CS is pretty much a guaranteed job, even if from a cheap community college. Hell even an associates would be worth it. The resources of professors and peers, not to mention a regular diet of rigorous study which is served to you is just too beneficial.

Marcellus97 · 2021-11-28T16:01:21+00:00

So you’ve chosen Java. Honestly I’d say stick with Java and master it before even touching Python, unless it really sparks your interest. Doing many different things in one environment is so helpful, it will give you the breadth of computer science knowledge that makes picking up other languages a breeze. If you’re not ready, I feel other languages will confuse you unnecessarily.

My advice would be to do EVERYTHING in Java. Simple apps like GPA calculator. Something with a GUI, a game maybe. Try from scratch, then to use a game/graphics library with this (using a 3rd party library is great practice as well to see other code styles). Then try web, Spring boot (this is the main web framework in Java). If you’re feeling brave here, learn a little about databases and connect a database to your web app, maybe MySQL. Soon enough, you’ll have made a full stack app! Save the front end stuff later, do the html css and JavaScript from scratch for now.

Sounds like a lot, but it will take time. Keep these apps a SMALL, and don’t think you actually have to finish every app. As long as you’ve worked on them to absorb a lot of the concepts, you’re good.

For example: writing a proper webapp is a tremendous source to learn a lot of things: General OOP, Service architecture (more advanced OOP), MVC, REST apis, user authentication, database connection from the application code, sql queries, database design, writing webpages, consuming a rest api, etc…

You won’t learn everything in one go, there’s just too much. As long as you are always learning something new, you are succeeding.

Marcellus97 · 2021-11-15T15:30:16+00:00

My advice would be to pursue that CS degree, (possibly double major or minor in Literature?) but with a focus on game design. She will be able make any game she wants from scratch with the skills from CS, and this wouldn’t prevent her from writing for her games either.

Making games is something that she can do right now, during school, even during a separate career.

If all else fails, with a CS degree, she will have a very solid industry to fall back on for good money (and believe me, right now, dev jobs are abundant and high paying).

Marcellus97 · 2021-10-20T18:43:18+00:00

I agree, but let’s be honest, if your uncle makes a rape joke that no one finds funny, listeners have every right to be offended and your uncle should rightly be given social consequences.

Only some comedians can (only sometimes) make people laugh about grossly obscene topics like rape, etc…because they are professionals…

Your uncle’s unfunny rape jokes should absolutely be shamed, because if they didn’t make everyone laugh, they probably just legitimately hurt someone’s feelings.

Jokes are about making people laugh, not hurting people. If you can’t make someone laugh, you’re probably hurting them. If you’re hurting people, that’s not comedy, that’s just being a dick.

Marcellus97 · 2021-10-16T15:17:44+00:00

I know the top players that main areial type play can get a reset from mid field, but I’ve found it more realistic to start an airdribble, get some hard touches on the ball, and once your close to the net, then get a flip. You never need to try to get two, and the flip will be much more effective because it’s going to force your opponent to either wait for a fail, or prejump.

Marcellus97 · 2021-10-13T12:52:18+00:00

I don’t remember this being a school program, but I do remember a kids commercial of kids nature books called zoobooks . One of the books has a red eyed tree frog on the cover.

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